Project description:Compare gene expression in the resting leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana WT with the mutants fou2 and tpc1-2. To analyse the contribution of the fou2 and tpc1-2 mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana to gene expression, transcript levels in the resting leaves of Arabidopsis were measured using 4 weeks-old plants grown in control conditions (long day).
Project description:Plants adapt to the prevailing photoperiod by optimally adjusting growth and flowering to the availability of energy. When Arabidopsis thaliana plants are grown in long days individual leaf growth is favoured, whereas whole plant leaf area is decreased because of the rapid shift to floral stages and, consequently, the low number of total leaves. To understand the molecular profiles of adaptation to long-day conditions we profiled Arabidopsis leaf number six of plants grown in 16 hours of light at four developmental stages both at the end of the day and the end of the night and compared the profiles to those acquired in short day conditions.
Project description:We have used a strain of Tobacco etch potyvirus (TEV) experimentally adapted to Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Ler-0 to infect a set of seven A. thaliana plant ecotypes(Col-0, Ei-2, Wt-1, ler-0, Oy-0, St-0). Each ecotype was inoculated with the same amount of the virus. Using commercial microarrays containing probes Arabidopsis thaliana ssp. Col-0 plant transcripts, we explored the effect of viral infection in the plant transcriptome
Project description:Transcriptional comparison of Arabidopsis thaliana pvip1;pvip2 RNAi double mutants against Col-0 wildtype. Tissue used: whole rosettes of 4-week-old plants grown under short-day conditions (8h light; 20oC). 3 biological replicates for each. Control = Col-0 and mutant = pvip1;pvip2. PVIP = Potyvirus-VPg-interacting protein (Dunoyer et al. 2004 J. Virol. 78: 2301-2309). 6 samples were used in this experiment.
Project description:This experiment profiled a time series of gene expression in leaf 7 of Arabidopsis thaliana plants grown in a controlled environment under 8 h light: 16 h dark (i.e. short days) to compare to the profiles analysed in Breeze et al. (2011) Plant Cell 23(3):873-94 under long day conditions.
Project description:The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of autotetraploidy on gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana by comparing diploid versus tetraploid transcriptomes. In particular, this included the comparison of the transcriptome of different tetraploid A. thaliana ecotypes (Col-0 vs. Ler-0). The study was extended to address further aspects. One was the comparison of the transcriptomes in subsequent generations. This intended to obtain information on the genome wide stability of autotetraploid gene expression. Another line of work compared the transcriptomes of different diploid vs. tetraploid tissues. This aimed to investigate whether particular gene groups are specifically affected during the development of A. thaliana autotetraploids. Samples 1-8: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of diploid vs. tetraploid Col-0 seedlings. The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Col-0 lines. Samples 9-12: Arabidopsis thaliana Ler-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of diploid vs. tetraploid Ler-0 seedlings. The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Ler-0 lines. Samples 13-24: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of diploid vs. tetraploid Col-0 leaves (6th - 8th). The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Col-0 lines. Samples 25-32: Arabidopsis thaliana Ler-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of diploid vs. tetraploid Ler-0 leaves (6th - 8th). The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Ler-0 lines. Samples 33-36: Arabidopsis thaliana Ler-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of tetraploid vs. tetraploid Ler-0 seedlings from the second (F2) and third (F3) generation after induction, respectively. The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Ler-0 lines. Samples 37-40: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of tetraploid vs. tetraploid Col-0 seedlings from the second (F2) and third (F3) generation after induction, respectively. The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Col-0 lines. Samples 41-44: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0/Ler-0 diploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of diploid Col-0 vs. diploid Ler-0 seedlings. The experiment was carried out with pedigree of esrablished lines. Samples 45-48: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0/Ler-0 tetraploid transcriptome. Transcriptional profiling and comparison of tetraploid Col-0 vs tetraploid Ler-0 seedlings. The experiment was carried out with pedigree of independently generated and assessed tetraploid Col-0 and Ler-0 lines.
Project description:Plants in temperate regions have evolved mechanisms to survive sudden temperature drops. Previous reports have indicated that the cold acclimation mechanism is light-dependent and does not fully operate under a low light intensity. In these studies, plants were grown under a long-day photoperiod and were more sensitive to freezing stress. However, winter annuals like Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 germinate in the fall, overwinter as rosettes, and therefore must acclimate under short photoperiods and low irradiance. The role of light intensity was analysed in plants grown under a short-day photoperiod at the growth stage 1.14. Plants were acclimated at 4 °C for seven days under 100 and 20 μmol m-2s-1 PPFD for control and limited-light conditions, respectively. All cold acclimated plants accumulated molecular markers reportedly associated with acquired freezing tolerance, including proline, sucrose, CBFs, and COR gene protein products dehydrins and low-temperature-responsive proteins LTIs. Observed changes indicated that low PPFD did not inhibit the cold acclimation process, and the freezing stress experiment confirmed similar survival rates. The molecular analysis found distinct PPFD-specific adaptation mechanisms that were manifested in contrasting content of anthocyanins, cytokinin conjugates, abundances of proteins forming photosystems, and enzymes of protein, energy, and ROS metabolism pathways. Finally, this study led to the identification of putative proteins and metabolite markers correlating with susceptibility to freezing stress of non-acclimated plants grown under low PPFD. Our data show that Arabidopsis plants grown under short-day photoperiod can be fully cold-acclimated under limited light conditions, employing standard and PPFD-specific pathways.
Project description:Wild type Arabidopsis Col-0 plants and mutants depleted of the catalytic subunit of the ribosome-associated N-acetyltransferase A (NatA) complex (amiNAA10) were grown on soil for six weeks under short-day conditions (8h light, light intensity: 100 µE, 21 °C/18 °C temperature (day/night), 50 % humidity). Proteasome and deubiquitinase activity were inhibited at 10 am (2 h of light) by floating leaf discs on ½ Hoagland supplemented with 50 µM MG132 and 20 µM PR-619 for 5 h.